THE 20 HEALTH BENEFITS OF REAL

BUTTER
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Are you worried about your health? Contrary to popular belief, completely eliminating butter from your diet
may be BAD for your health! Learn all the benefits of eating butter here!

The origins of butter go back thousands of years to when our ancestors first
started domesticating animals. In fact, the first written reference to butter
was found on a 4500- year old limestone tablet illustrating how butter was
made.1
In India, ghee (clarified butter) has been used as a staple food, and as a
symbol of purity, worthy of offering to the gods in religious ceremonies for
more than 3000 years.2
The Bible has references to butter as the product of milk from the cow, and
of Abraham setting butter and milk from a calf before three angels who
appeared to him on the plains of Mamre.3
For millennia, people around the globe have prized butter for its health
benefits.

So how did butter become a villain in the quest for

good health?
At the turn of our century, heart disease in America was rare. By 1960, it was
our number one killer. Yet during the same time period, butter
consumption had decreased - from eighteen pounds per person per year,
to four.4
A researcher named Ancel Keys was the first to propose that saturated fat
and cholesterol in the diet were to blame for coronary heart disease (CAD).
Numerous subsequent studies costing hundreds of millions of dollars, have
failed to conclusively back up this claim.5

Yet the notion that a healthy diet is one with minimal fat, particularly
saturated fat, has persisted. While Americans drastically reduced their intake
of natural animal fats like butter and meat, the processed food industry,
particularly the low-fat food industry, proliferated.
When the baby boomers were children, concerned mothers began to replace
butter with margarine. The margarine manufacturers told them it was the
healthier alternative and mothers believed them. In those days no one
asked, "where is the science to prove it? I want to know before I give this
man-made, plastized stuff to my children. After all we humans have been
eating butter for thousands of years?".
As a result, since the early 1970's, Americans' average saturated fat
intake has dropped considerably, while rates of obesity, diabetes,
and consequently, heart disease, have surged.
Reducing healthy sources of dietary fat has contributed to a serious decline
in our well-being, and those of us that speak out against the anti-fat
establishment are still largely ignored .

Is Margarine Better than Butter?

No! This is a tragic myth. Butter is a completely natural food essential to
your health - especially when you eat organic. Also, please make the extra
effort to obtain high-quality organic, raw butter.
Margarines, on the other hand, are a processed food, created chemically
from refined polyunsaturated oils. The process used to make these normally
liquid oils into spread-able form is called hydrogenation.
Margarine and similar hydrogenated or processed polyunsaturated
oils are potentially more detrimental to your health than any
saturated fat.7For more information on why you should avoid all processed
oils read Why the Processing of Consumable Oils Has Devastated America's
Health.

Include Real Butter as part of Your Body Ecology

Lifestyle
As many of you already know, I am a strong proponent of including a variety
of healthy oils and fats into your diet. Together they work as a team to supply
your body with essential fatty acids for longevity, hormone balance, heart
health, sharp vision, glowing moist skin and energy. The wonderful variety of
oils and fats certainly includes organic, preferably raw butter. Cultured raw
butter is even better.

And why would I be so insistent that you eat butter?

Take a look at the long list of the benefits you receive
when you include it in your diet: 8
1. Butter is rich in the most easily absorbable form of Vitamin A
necessary for thyroid and adrenal health.
2. Contains lauric acid, important in treating fungal infections
and candida.
3. Contains lecithin, essential for cholesterol metabolism.
4. Contains anti-oxidants that protect against free radical damage.
5. Has anti-oxidants that protect against weakening arteries.
6. Is a great source of Vitamins E and K.
7. Is a very rich source of the vital mineral selenium.
8. Saturated fats in butter have strong anti-tumor and anti-cancer
properties.
9. Butter contains conjugated linoleic acid, which is a potent anticancer agent, muscle builder, and immunity booster
10.
Vitamin D found in butter is essential to absorption of calcium.
11.
Protects against tooth decay.
12.
Is your only source of an anti-stiffness factor, which protects
against calcification of the joints.
13.
Anti-stiffness factor in butter also prevents hardening of the
arteries, cataracts, and calcification of the pineal gland.
14.
Is a source of Activator X, which helps your body absorb
minerals.
15.
Is a source of iodine in highly absorbable form.
16.
May promote fertility in women.9
17.
Is a source of quick energy, and is not stored in our bodies
adipose tissue.
18.
Cholesterol found in butterfat is essential to children's brain and
nervous system development.
19.
Contains Arachidonic Acid (AA) which plays a role in brain
function and is a vital component of cell membranes.
20.
Protects against gastrointestinal infections in the very young or
the elderly.

Raw, Organic Butter is the Best

Believe me this is only a partial list. If a woman is pregnant, hopes to become
pregnant or is nursing her baby, I think it should even become a law for her
to eat butter for her baby's developing brain, bones and teeth.
The best butter you can eat is raw, organic butter
because pasteurization destroys nutrients. Unfortunately, the sale of raw
butter is prohibited in most of our 50 states.

Are you finding it difficult to get organic, raw butter? Don't worry! Making your own delicious cultured butter
with Body Ecology Culture Starter is an easy way to get on the right track towards health

You can, however, make your own healthy butter, and it is easier than you
think. Look into our Body Ecology Culture Starter, which you simply add to
organic cream. After letting this mixture sit at room temperature for 24
hours, chill it, beat it with a whisk, and voila! You'll have
healthy, probiotic butter that is delicious!
Cultured butter is full of health sustaining good bacteria like lactobacillus
planterum, and lactococcus lactis. These microflora are essential for a healthy
inner ecosystem.

Sources of Healthy Butter

If you don't want to culture your own butter, I recommend butter from grassfed animals only. A good source is U.S. Wellness Meats.
I also recommend Activator X and Vitamin rich butter oil, made by Green
Pastures.

Heart Healthy-the Body Ecology Way

Completely eliminating butter and other healthy animal source fats is NOT
the Body Ecology way. It is not how our ancestors thrived, and not what
nature intended.
How much should you eat each day? Like sea salt, your own body will tell you
how much to eat. If you crave it, eat it, your body needs it. If the quality is
excellent you can feel confident it will be good for you and you'll soon see
the benefits yourself. If you are following the Body Ecology Food Combining
Principle and eating as we recommend (adding at least one source
of fermented food or drink to your diet) you will see your body reach its idea
weight. The raw butter will help you develop beautiful muscles.
The Body Ecology program is gaining recognition for being a premier way of
healing candida and other immune dysfunctions. And what's more, it's a hearthealthy, super-slimming, anti-aging way of life, which is crucial to your
health as a whole.

SOURCES:
1.

History of Butter
http://www.dairygoodness.ca/en/consumers/products/butter/history-of-butter.htm
2.
"Butter" from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter#Worldwide
3.
Princely Packets of Golden Health
http://webexhibits.org/butter/ref/MiltonEParker.pdf
4.
Why Butter is Better
http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/butter.html
5.
The Soft Science of Dietary Fat, Science Magazine, March 2001
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/taubes.html#linktop
6.
Ibid
7.
Polyunsaturated Oils Increase Cancer Risk
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/fats_and_cancer.html
8.
From The Skinny on Fats
http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/skinny.html
and Why Butter is Better
9.
http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/butter.html
10.
Fertility Awareness, Food, and Night-lighting
http://www.westonaprice.org/women/fertility.html and
High Fat Dairy May Boost Fertility
http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/printnewsbis.asp?id=74590

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